A British baby died prematurely.
A baby born prematurely in the UK died after his mother was infected with Covid-19.
- The 22-year-old mother was not vaccinated against the virus.
- The infant’s death certificate listed “severe respiratory distress syndrome” and Covid-19 as causes.
According to media reports, a British baby who was born prematurely by a woman who was infected with Covid-19 late in pregnancy has died.
Katie Leeming, 22, tested positive for the coronavirus after she started showing cold-like symptoms in early October during her pregnancy last month.
Within a week, Leeming said that she no longer felt the baby moving, and contacted her local hospital in northern England.
After expressing concern about the reduction in intrauterine activity, the doctor delivered the baby named Ivy-Rose via an emergency caesarean section on October 13.
Ivy-Rose was born 14 weeks prematurely and weighed 990 grams at birth.
She was transferred to a specialist neonatal care ward and suffered a series of complications, including pulmonary hemorrhage and cerebral hemorrhage.
When she was about five days old, she tested positive for Covid-19. Four days later, she passed away.
Her death certificate stated that the cause of death was extreme premature delivery at 26 weeks, severe respiratory distress syndrome, mother’s Covid-positive and infant’s Covid-positive, and intraventricular hemorrhage.
“We received a call on the eighth night saying that we need to go to the hospital because they think Ivy-Rose will not stay up late,” Leeming told the British i News website.
“They took her hand and footprints as her memory box, and Ivy-Rose passed away at 1:30 am on October 22nd. We are absolutely heartbroken, it still hasn’t sunk,” she said.
Leeming was not vaccinated against Covid-19, and Covid-19 is currently circulating again in the UK.
After talking with other pregnant women, she chose not to vaccinate.
“I don’t think there has been enough research on the effects of the vaccine during pregnancy and whether it will affect babies,” Leeming told i news.
Leeming added that after Ivy-Rose’s death, she would not reconsider her decision, on the grounds that relatives and others were infected with Covid-19 even after being fully vaccinated.
She said: “I can’t think like this. If I get vaccinated, I might still be infected with COVID and get sick. Who knows what will happen.”
The British National Health Service (NHS) stated that women can safely receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and it is best for them to receive vaccines produced by Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna.
